Ralph Anthony Saporito, Ph.D. - Publications

Affiliations: 
2009-2020 Biology John Carroll University 
Area:
Chemical Ecology
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https://ralphsaporito.weebly.com/

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Year Citation  Score
2023 Lawrence JP, Rojas B, Blanchette A, Saporito RA, Mappes J, Fouquet A, Noonan BP. Linking Predator Responses to Alkaloid Variability in Poison Frogs. Journal of Chemical Ecology. PMID 36854928 DOI: 10.1007/s10886-023-01412-7  0.331
2020 Basham EW, Saporito RA, González‐Pinzón M, Romero‐Marcucci A, Scheffers BR. Chemical defenses shift with the seasonal vertical migration of a Panamanian poison frog Biotropica. DOI: 10.1111/Btp.12842  0.324
2019 Sanchez E, Rodríguez A, Grau JH, Lötters S, Künzel S, Saporito RA, Ringler E, Schulz S, Wollenberg Valero KC, Vences M. Transcriptomic Signatures of Experimental Alkaloid Consumption in a Poison Frog. Genes. 10. PMID 31546679 DOI: 10.3390/Genes10100733  0.348
2019 Lawrence JP, Rojas B, Fouquet A, Mappes J, Blanchette A, Saporito RA, Bosque RJ, Courtois EA, Noonan BP. Weak warning signals can persist in the absence of gene flow. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. PMID 31481623 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.1901872116  0.349
2019 Saporito RA, Russell MW, Richards-Zawacki CL, Dugas MB. Experimental evidence for maternal provisioning of alkaloid defenses in a dendrobatid frog. Toxicon : Official Journal of the International Society On Toxinology. PMID 30790578 DOI: 10.1016/J.Toxicon.2019.02.008  0.365
2019 Jeckel AM, Kocheff S, Saporito RA, Grant T. Geographically separated orange and blue populations of the Amazonian poison frog Adelphobates galactonotus (Anura, Dendrobatidae) do not differ in alkaloid composition or palatability Chemoecology. 29: 225-234. DOI: 10.1007/S00049-019-00291-3  0.431
2018 Saporito RA, Grant T. Comment on Amézquita et al. (2017) "Conspicuousness, color resemblance, and toxicity in geographically diverging mimicry: The pan-Amazonian frog Allobates femoralis". Evolution; International Journal of Organic Evolution. PMID 29524217 DOI: 10.1111/Evo.13468  0.404
2018 Hovey KJ, Seiter EM, Johnson EE, Saporito RA. Sequestered Alkaloid Defenses in the Dendrobatid Poison Frog Oophaga pumilio Provide Variable Protection from Microbial Pathogens. Journal of Chemical Ecology. PMID 29427191 DOI: 10.1007/S10886-018-0930-8  0.391
2018 Stuckert AMM, Saporito RA, Summers K. An Empirical Test Indicates Only Qualitatively Honest Aposematic Signaling Within a Population of Vertebrates Journal of Herpetology. 52: 201-208. DOI: 10.1670/17-047  0.354
2018 DeMarchi JA, Britton A, O'Donnell K, Saporito RA. Behavioural preference for low levels of UV-B radiation in two neotropical frog species from Costa Rica Journal of Tropical Ecology. 34: 336-340. DOI: 10.1017/S0266467418000287  0.304
2017 Jones TH, Guthrie DM, Hogan CT, Robinson DJ, Mesibov R, Shear WA, Spande TF, Saporito RA. The Chemistry of Some Dalodesmidean Millipedes from Tasmania (Diplopoda, Polydesmida). Journal of Natural Products. PMID 29243929 DOI: 10.1021/Acs.Jnatprod.7B00806  0.357
2017 von Byern J, Grunwald I, Kosok M, Saporito RA, Dicke U, Wetjen O, Thiel K, Borcherding K, Kowalik T, Marchetti-Deschmann M. Chemical characterization of the adhesive secretions of the salamander Plethodon shermani (Caudata, Plethodontidae). Scientific Reports. 7: 6647. PMID 28751633 DOI: 10.1038/S41598-017-05473-Z  0.319
2017 Bolton SK, Dickerson K, Saporito RA. Variable Alkaloid Defenses in the Dendrobatid Poison Frog Oophaga pumilio are Perceived as Differences in Palatability to Arthropods. Journal of Chemical Ecology. 43: 273-289. PMID 28289966 DOI: 10.1007/S10886-017-0827-Y  0.469
2017 Schulte LM, Saporito RA, Davison I, Summers K. The palatability of Neotropical poison frogs in predator-prey systems: do alkaloids make the difference? Biotropica. 49: 23-26. DOI: 10.1111/Btp.12404  0.445
2017 Blanchette A, Becza N, Saporito RA. Escape behaviour of aposematic (Oophaga pumilio) and cryptic (Craugastor sp.) frogs in response to simulated predator approach Journal of Tropical Ecology. 33: 165-169. DOI: 10.1017/S0266467417000037  0.315
2016 Murray EM, Bolton SK, Berg T, Saporito RA. Arthropod predation in a dendrobatid poison frog: does frog life stage matter? Zoology (Jena, Germany). PMID 26831358 DOI: 10.1016/J.Zool.2016.01.002  0.363
2016 Davis LR, Klonoski K, Rutschow HL, Van Wijk KJ, Sun Q, Haribal MM, Saporito RA, Vega A, Rosenblum EB, Zamudio KR, Robertson JM. Host Defense Skin Peptides Vary with Color Pattern in the Highly Polymorphic Red-Eyed Treefrog Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. 4. DOI: 10.3389/Fevo.2016.00097  0.362
2016 Gade MR, Hill M, Saporito RA. Color Assortative Mating in a Mainland Population of the Poison Frog Oophaga pumilio Ethology. 122: 851-858. DOI: 10.1111/Eth.12533  0.392
2016 Hantak MM, Paluh DJ, Saporito RA. Bufadienolide and alkaloid-based chemical defences in two different species of neotropical anurans are equally effective against the same arthropod predators Journal of Tropical Ecology. 32: 165-169. DOI: 10.1017/S0266467416000055  0.453
2016 Crothers L, Saporito RA, Yeager J, Lynch K, Friesen C, Richards-Zawacki CL, McGraw K, Cummings M. Warning signal properties covary with toxicity but not testosterone or aggregate carotenoids in a poison frog Evolutionary Ecology. 30: 601-621. DOI: 10.1007/S10682-016-9830-Y  0.396
2015 Jeckel AM, Saporito RA, Grant T. The relationship between poison frog chemical defenses and age, body size, and sex. Frontiers in Zoology. 12: 27. PMID 26435730 DOI: 10.1186/S12983-015-0120-2  0.396
2015 Andriamaharavo NR, Garraffo HM, Spande TF, Giddings LA, Vieites DR, Vences M, Saporito RA. Individual and Geographic Variation of Skin Alkaloids in Three Swamp-Forest Species of Madagascan Poison Frogs (Mantella). Journal of Chemical Ecology. 41: 837-47. PMID 26329921 DOI: 10.1007/S10886-015-0616-4  0.4
2015 Saporito RA, Norton RA, Garraffo MH, Spande TF. Taxonomic distribution of defensive alkaloids in Nearctic oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida). Experimental & Applied Acarology. 67: 317-33. PMID 26264156 DOI: 10.1007/S10493-015-9962-8  0.404
2015 Jeckel AM, Grant T, Saporito RA. Sequestered and Synthesized Chemical Defenses in the Poison Frog Melanophryniscus moreirae. Journal of Chemical Ecology. 41: 505-12. PMID 25902958 DOI: 10.1007/S10886-015-0578-6  0.434
2015 Paluh DJ, Kenison EK, Saporito RA. Frog or Fruit? The Importance of Color and Shape to Bird Predators in Clay Model Experiments Copeia. 103: 58-63. DOI: 10.1643/Ce-13-126  0.375
2015 Mina AE, Ponti AK, Woodcraft NL, Johnson EE, Saporito RA. Variation in alkaloid-based microbial defenses of the dendrobatid poison frog Oophaga pumilio Chemoecology. 25: 169-178. DOI: 10.1007/S00049-015-0186-5  0.386
2014 Stynoski JL, Torres-Mendoza Y, Sasa-Marin M, Saporito RA. Evidence of maternal provisioning of alkaloid-based chemical defenses in the strawberry poison frog Oophaga pumilio. Ecology. 95: 587-93. PMID 24804437 DOI: 10.1890/13-0927.1  0.382
2014 Stuckert AM, Saporito RA, Venegas PJ, Summers K. Alkaloid defenses of co-mimics in a putative Müllerian mimetic radiation. Bmc Evolutionary Biology. 14: 76. PMID 24707851 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-14-76  0.331
2014 Paluh DJ, Hantak MM, Saporito RA. A Test of Aposematism in the Dendrobatid Poison FrogOophaga pumilio: The Importance of Movement in Clay Model Experiments Journal of Herpetology. 48: 249-254. DOI: 10.1670/13-027  0.38
2013 Hantak MM, Grant T, Reinsch S, McGinnity D, Loring M, Toyooka N, Saporito RA. Dietary alkaloid sequestration in a poison frog: an experimental test of alkaloid uptake in Melanophryniscus stelzneri (Bufonidae). Journal of Chemical Ecology. 39: 1400-6. PMID 24190023 DOI: 10.1007/S10886-013-0361-5  0.449
2013 Hegna RH, Saporito RA, Donnelly MA. Not all colors are equal: Predation and color polytypism in the aposematic poison frog Oophaga pumilio Evolutionary Ecology. 27: 831-845. DOI: 10.1007/S10682-012-9605-Z  0.603
2012 Savitzky AH, Mori A, Hutchinson DA, Saporito RA, Burghardt GM, Lillywhite HB, Meinwald J. Sequestered defensive toxins in tetrapod vertebrates: principles, patterns, and prospects for future studies. Chemoecology. 22: 141-158. PMID 22904605 DOI: 10.1007/S00049-012-0112-Z  0.422
2012 Savitzky AH, Saporito RA. Sequestration of defensive toxins by tetrapod vertebrates: Contributions in memory of John W. Daly Chemoecology. 22: 139-140. DOI: 10.1007/S00049-012-0111-0  0.337
2012 Grant T, Colombo P, Verrastro L, Saporito RA. The occurrence of defensive alkaloids in non-integumentary tissues of the Brazilian red-belly toad Melanophryniscus simplex (Bufonidae) Chemoecology. 22: 169-178. DOI: 10.1007/S00049-012-0107-9  0.394
2012 Saporito RA, Donnelly MA, Spande TF, Garraffo HM. A review of chemical ecology in poison frogs Chemoecology. 22: 159-168. DOI: 10.1007/S00049-011-0088-0  0.602
2011 Saporito RA, Norton RA, Andriamaharavo NR, Garraffo HM, Spande TF. Alkaloids in the mite Scheloribates laevigatus: further alkaloids common to oribatid mites and poison frogs. Journal of Chemical Ecology. 37: 213-8. PMID 21318398 DOI: 10.1007/S10886-011-9914-7  0.445
2011 Hegna RH, Saporito RA, Gerow KG, Donnelly MA. Contrasting Colors of an Aposematic Poison Frog Do Not Affect Predation Annales Zoologici Fennici. 48: 29-38. DOI: 10.5735/086.048.0103  0.605
2010 Andriamaharavo NR, Garraffo HM, Saporito RA, Daly JW, Razafindrabe CR, Andriantsiferana M, Spande TF. Roughing it: a mantellid poison frog shows greater alkaloid diversity in some disturbed habitats. Journal of Natural Products. 73: 322-30. PMID 20178326 DOI: 10.1021/Np900721R  0.328
2010 Saporito RA, Donnelly MA, Madden AA, Martin Garraffo H, Spande TF. Sex-related differences in alkaloid chemical defenses of the dendrobatid frog oophaga pumilio from cayo Nancy, bocas del Toro, Panama Journal of Natural Products. 73: 317-321. PMID 20030363 DOI: 10.1021/Np900702D  0.586
2010 Saporito RA, Isola M, Maccachero VC, Condon K, Donnelly MA. Ontogenetic scaling of poison glands in a dendrobatid poison frog Journal of Zoology. 282: 238-245. DOI: 10.1111/J.1469-7998.2010.00732.X  0.575
2009 Daly JW, Ware N, Saporito RA, Spande TF, Garraffo HM. N-methyldecahydroquinolines: an unexpected class of alkaloids from Amazonian poison frogs (Dendrobatidae). Journal of Natural Products. 72: 1110-4. PMID 19432407 DOI: 10.1021/Np900094V  0.358
2009 Saporito RA, Spande TF, Garraffo HM, Donnelly MA. Arthropod alkaloids in poison frogs: A review of the 'dietary hypothesis' Heterocycles. 79: 277-297. DOI: 10.3987/Rev-08-Sr(D)11  0.621
2008 Daly JW, Garraffo HM, Spande TF, Giddings LA, Saporito RA, Vieites DR, Vences M. Individual and geographic variation of skin alkaloids in three species of Madagascan poison frogs (Mantella). Journal of Chemical Ecology. 34: 252-79. PMID 18196341 DOI: 10.1007/S10886-007-9396-9  0.393
2007 Saporito RA, Donnelly MA, Jain P, Martin Garraffo H, Spande TF, Daly JW. Spatial and temporal patterns of alkaloid variation in the poison frog Oophaga pumilio in Costa Rica and Panama over 30 years. Toxicon : Official Journal of the International Society On Toxinology. 50: 757-78. PMID 17706737 DOI: 10.1016/J.Toxicon.2007.06.022  0.632
2007 Saporito RA, Donnelly MA, Norton RA, Garraffo HM, Spande TF, Daly JW. Oribatid mites as a major dietary source for alkaloids in poison frogs. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 104: 8885-90. PMID 17502597 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.0702851104  0.637
2007 Saporito RA, Zuercher R, Roberts M, Gerow KG, Donnelly MA. Experimental evidence for aposematism in the dendrobatid poison frog Oophaga pumilio Copeia. 1006-1011. DOI: 10.1643/0045-8511(2007)7[1006:Eefait]2.0.Co;2  0.616
2006 Saporito RA, Donnelly MA, Garraffo HM, Spande TF, Daly JW. Geographic and seasonal variation in alkaloid-based chemical defenses of Dendrobates pumilio from Bocas del Toro, Panama. Journal of Chemical Ecology. 32: 795-814. PMID 16718571 DOI: 10.1007/S10886-006-9034-Y  0.637
2004 Saporito RA, Garraffo HM, Donnelly MA, Edwards AL, Longino JT, Daly JW. Formicine ants: An arthropod source for the pumiliotoxin alkaloids of dendrobatid poison frogs. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 101: 8045-50. PMID 15128938 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.0402365101  0.656
2003 Saporito RA, Donnelly MA, Hoffman RL, Garraffo HM, Daly JW. A siphonotid millipede (Rhinotus) as the source of spiropyrrolizidine oximes of dendrobatid frogs. Journal of Chemical Ecology. 29: 2781-6. PMID 14969363 DOI: 10.1023/B:Joec.0000008065.28364.A0  0.626
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